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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025

Belleville, MI ranks #1,525 worldwide for total patents filed in 2016, with 82 patents from 39 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Belleville, MI include General Motors, Ford, Guardian Glass. That works out to 20.5 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 1–39 of 39 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
1 James M. Hart General Motors 14
2 Linh Doan Ford 6
3 Paul Stephen Bryan Ford 5
#4 Brandon Buckhalt Ford 3
#4 Frank M. Korpics Ford 3
#4 Shunsuke Okubo Ford 3
#4 Dennis E. Cox 3
#4 Andrew W. Pantke Guardian Glass 3
#9 Joseph D. Mastie Borgwarner 2
#9 Joseph Patrick Whitehead Ford 2
#9 Chad Clement Ford 2
#9 Kevin C. Payne Ford 2
#9 Scott M. Skelton General Motors 2
#9 Frazier Cunningham, III 2
#9 Esteban Camacho General Motors 2
#9 Cindita D. Cunningham 2
#9 Christopher House Ford 2
#9 Anna Miller Hill Ford 2
#9 Christopher Howe Amcor Limited 2
#20 Mark Kowalski Adient Us 1
#20 Steven Edmund Bandy Ford 1
#20 David F. Swanson 1
#20 Mark Warren Muddiman Ford 1
#20 Peter E. Hackett Dwyer Instruments 1
#20 Jonathan K. Williams General Motors 1
#20 Daniel Burgener Northwestern University 1
#20 Brian K. Noel 1
#20 John Cerone Z-Modular Holding 1
#20 Stephen R. Dennon Ford 1
#20 Jason Eugene Devries Ford 1
#20 James W. Girard Ford 1
#20 Paul T. McCrary Borgwarner 1
#20 Karl Douglas Vandivier Ford 1
#20 Katherine Jane Brewer Ford 1
#20 George Paul Cybernet Systems 1
#20 Christopher Tulik Ford 1
#20 John Mullins Ford 1
#20 Robert L. Thorne 1
#20 Fred N. Blackmore, Jr. 1

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